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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD

@mirelagtulbure.bsky.social
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Visiting Staff Scientist @Planet Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program Professor in Geospatial Analytics #floods #satellite data and AI, #Python Lab: gaec-lab.netlify.app

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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It Takes Three to Model Methane Right eos.org/research-spo...
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It Takes Three to Model Methane Right - Eos
By combining conventional process-based and atmospheric inversion modeling with machine learning, scientists home in on a more realistic methane model.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Many Americans Underestimate Health Risks of Extreme Weather, New Study Finds eos.org/research-spo...
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Many Americans Underestimate Health Risks of Extreme Weather, New Study Finds - Eos
The research examines the “risk perception gap,” or the difference between climate-related mortality estimates and public perceptions of climate risk, across U.S. counties.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Individual Consequences of a Global Crisis eos.org/agu-news/ind...
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Individual Consequences of a Global Crisis - Eos
From wildfires and ocean temperatures to antimicrobials and mental health, scientists are uncovering more and more links between climate change and personal health.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Enjoyed reading this piece, placing the #flooding during Hurricane Helene in historical context, spoiler: the perceived low risk is not justified: 10.1016/j.hydroa.2025.100204
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The price of paradise: how unincorporated communities of rural North Carolina tolerate coastal #flooding doi.org/10.3389/fcli...
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Frontiers | The price of paradise: how communities tolerate chronic coastal flooding in rural North Carolina
Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a growing threat to the livability of coastal communities, leading to many projections of out-migration in the coming decades. How...
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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 07/08/2026
Massive raster collections, but without the pain. lazycogs lets you open huge COG archives as an xarray dataset using STAC Geoparquet—fetching only the pixels you actually need. More in Groundwork 05 → developmentseed.org/blog/2026-0...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Future hurricane rainfall increases... a lot. Especially in Northeast. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Lin @adamsobel.bsky.social @monahemmati.bsky.social Env Res Clim
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Downscaled projections of future tropical cyclone rainfall climatology along the U.S. North Atlantic and Gulf coasts
Downscaled projections of future tropical cyclone rainfall climatology along the U.S. North Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Lin, Yen-Heng, Fosu, Boniface, He, Jie, Lee, Chia-Ying, Camargo, Suzana J, Sobel, Adam H, Hemmati, Mona, Sustiel, Jacqueline, Mandli, Kyle T, Padgett, Jamie E, Patel, Jainish M, Sury, Jonathan J
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The strongest El Niño ever predicted for 2027: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...
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The Strongest El Niño Ever
With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Big Trouble from Little Wetlands eos.org/articles/big...
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Big Trouble from Little Wetlands - Eos
New research suggests that small wetlands, previously unaccounted for in the global methane budget, are responsible for about 25% of global methane emissions.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1/4 🎉 Huge congratulations to Rebecca Composto on successfully defending her PhD on "Leveraging Satellite Imagery to Map Urban Floods and Quantify Flood Impact"! 🛰️🌊
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social on how spatial scale affects satellite remote sensing of surface water extent: mapping the Upper Chattahoochee watershed using PlanetBasemap datasets; machine learning for surface water classification; accuracy and seasonality; and validation.
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Matthias Sprenger @matthiasprenger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This project advances the fields of forest ecohydrology by bridging the gap between in-situ observations & global satellite data using ML approaches. It's going to be an exciting collaboration across the NC State College of Natural Resources with Katie Martin and @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social
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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Global Flood Partnership Meeting is in Provo, Utah, this August 4-6. its free to go! its a nice small meeting of end users of flood data and the scientists, companies, and government agencies that produce flood data www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-a...
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GFP annual conference, August 4-6 2026 | Global Flood Partnership
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Consider signing this for the continuation of the EM-DAT disaster database openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...
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The World's collective disaster memory must be preserved
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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Excited to announce Groundsource - an open-source dataset of historic flood events! This has easily been one of the coolest projects I've worked on recently! Thread 🧵 for details and all relevant links. 1/n
A worldmap of the spatial distribution of extracted flood events in the Groundsource dataset. The map displays the total number of flood events extracted by the LLM-based pipeline aggregated per grid cell. The data are visualized using a Robinson projection, with event counts represented by a logarithmic color scale. Red points indicate the spatial centroids of reference flood events from the GDACS database.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#Methane Hunters Track Swamp Gas That Is Driving Climate Warming www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...
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Methane Hunters Track Swamp Gas That Is Driving Climate Warming
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
our work, showing that only 65%–75% of the Planet Basemap #water area was also classified by #Landsat was featured in #Planet's monthly science newsletter: tinyurl.com/37rcadvp Article here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NASA EarthRISE Developers Academy Summer 2026 Paid Research Opportunities: appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/c... The Academy builds the next generation of science and technology leaders through a 10wk opportunity applying NASA Earth observations to real-world challenges Deadline: March 6
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EarthRISE Developers Academy | NASA Applied Sciences
DEVELOP pairs participants with partner organizations for 10-week research projects that connect NASA Earth observations to community concerns around the globe.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Our latest contribution in Geophysical Research Letters examines spatial-scale effects on surface #water detection with important implications for multi-sensor water monitoring. doi.org/10.1029/2025... Thank you, NASA FINESST & Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program for funding.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Headed to #AGU25 next week? Check out the work my group is presenting on #flooding and climate-driven hazards: 🌧️ Using geospatial foundation models for global flood mapping 🏙️ Satellite- and process-based comparisons of flood extent & depth in urban envs 🌪️ Hurricane-induced flash floods #Helene
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🌍 Geospatial data science in 2025 still comes down to two words: foundation models. And over the past months, we’ve had the chance to put that idea into practice for global flood mapping. Summary figures & discussion on Hugging Face: 👉 lnkd.in/euR9DXfX Full technical preprint: 👉 lnkd.in/eYMCZd9e
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Free access to Google Colab Pro for academics and students: #python blog.google/outreach-ini...
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New Google Colab features for higher education
Google Colab offers free Colab Pro for students, interactive slideshows and AI controls in notebooks.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
With NISAR successfully launched on July 30, 2025, the mission is opening up an extraordinary new era of global L-band SAR observations. Look forward to using the data for #floods The NISAR Science Users’ Handbook Second Edition can be accessed here: dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset.xhtm... #NISAR
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's been a minute on this one (in review for ~ 1.5 yrs), but congrats to Vini on his 4th PhD chapter, thx to Sankar for support & to me for pushing it over the line 😊 "Assessing the cumulative impact of on-farm reservoirs on modeled surface hydrology" is out: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Michael R. Bloomberg Launches Unprecedented End-to-End Global Methane Emissions Reduction Effort – From Space Detection to Rapid Response | Bloomberg Philanthropies
New $100 million investment will create “Methane Response Basecamps” and expand satellite constellation to find and fix leaks faster than ever before Belém, Brazil, and New York, NY – UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a new $100 million investment to accelerate global efforts to cut methane…
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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
join us with the Global Flood Partnership next Wednesday am for our ALL WOMEN remote sensing and flooding webinar! @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social @ekta-aggarwal.bsky.social and I discuss AI and flood mapping +applications re: migration + emergency response www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
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GFP 2025 fall webinar series | Global Flood Partnership
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join the Global Flood Partnership (GFP) 2025 Fall Webinar Series! On November 19, 2025 (16:00 CET), we bring you three expert talks on how Earth-Observation data is transforming flood mapping, risk assessment, and resilience strategies. Register here: lnkd.in/gjYX3GV8 See also: lnkd.in/gRQFuk_J
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk. Experts Say Trump Is Making It Worse. - KFF Health News
As a warming climate intensifies storms, KFF Health News has identified more than 170 U.S. hospitals at risk of significant and potentially dangerous flooding. Climate experts warn that the Trump admi...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
And just like that, 1min later, I have lots of basemaps in #QGIS: github.com/opengeos/qgi...
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GitHub - opengeos/qgis-basemaps: Adding basemaps to QGIS
Adding basemaps to QGIS. Contribute to opengeos/qgis-basemaps development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
First NISAR images!! www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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NASA-ISRO Satellite Sends First Radar Images of Earth’s Surface - NASA
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A second version of the Comprehensive Remote Sensing book series #satellites #academia #books www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Ways to improve equity in faculty workload in #academia: advance.umd.edu/fwrp/home
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The Faculty Workload and Rewards Project | ADVANCE
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
A new semester, new challenges, and the same fantastic team! 🚀 Feeling grateful for #NASA’s continued support of our research on #flood dynamics and resilience with #satellite data and AI gaec-lab.netlify.app/post/25-09-0...
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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n... Quoted in nytimes today re flood net- this neat network of sensors detecting water height all over nyc (which I am not involved with but really admire!)
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The Street-Corner Sensors That Track Flooding in Real Time
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Check out NASA's near-real-time global #flood products: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instrum...
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NRT Global Flood Products | NASA Earthdata
NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observation (LANCE) provides near real-time (NRT) flood products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible ...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A Diverse New Generation of Scientists Observes Earth from Above eos.org/science-upda...
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A Diverse New Generation of Scientists Observes Earth from Above - Eos
Project-based learning and a modular class design help students from various backgrounds and universities gain hands-on experience with environmental remote sensing.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This summer has been roasting hot for Europe doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Farewell #Landsat 7, our use of 5TB of Landsat 5&7 & AI algos a few yrs back for surface #water and #flooding dynamics at subcontinental scale was a highlight: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/thir... earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88292... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-fi...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Great tracking of a tsunami with #SWOT SWOT data could significantly enhance operational tsunami forecasts www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/us-fren...
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US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake
Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚀 The #NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission—a collaboration between #NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO)—is launching today! NISAR will be a game-changer for monitoring flooded vegetation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTm... #Radar #FloodMonitoring
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NISAR Launch
YouTube video by NASA
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Writing is thinking — why we should only use LLMs as a helping tool, but NOT to write for us!
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Understanding country income: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
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Understanding country income: World Bank Group income classifications for FY26
Every year on July 1, the World Bank Group updates the classification of world economies into four income groups based on the previous year's GNI per capita. This classification impacts development ai...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Three key factors that made Texas floods so extreme and so deadly - BBC News
Volatile weather, unusual humidity and the Texan landscape all contributed to scale of destruction
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding theconversation.com/why-texas-hi...
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Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding
A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
AI enhances #flood warning, but the risk of disasters still remains: www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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AI enhances flood warnings but cannot erase risk of disaster
The effectiveness of an AI model is only as good as the information it is fed. If there is little input data, or extreme events happen more frequently, weather disasters become more challenging to predict.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The climate resiliency of green social housing in Vienna could be used as an example of landscaping to protect urban residents against #floods www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Surprisingly poor protection against extreme precipitation and flooding events from gray infrastructure in high-income countries and cities. Nature-based solutions (i.e., green infrastructure) are key! Topography in cities is helpful www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mirela G. Tulbure, PhD @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#Hurricane season has started in the USA on June 1. Here are some tips on how to protect your home from #flooding: www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...
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Live in a hurricane-prone area? Here's how to prepare your home for flooding
If you're worried about flooding this hurricane season, here are some ways to harden your home with flooding and climate change in mind.
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